Edgar’s Mission

Some of the beautiful faces from Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia (www.edgarsmission.org.au)

All of these images are available to be purchased as 5×7 matted prints (fits an 8×10 frame size)

Each matted print only costs $20 and ALL your money goes straight to Edgar’s Mission.

Prints are printed on professional Endura paper, signed and produced with love and care by me.

Edgar’s Mission slideshow is best viewed fullscreen! 🙂

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Beautiful Ducks

In honour of all the ducks (and all the other bird life who get caught up in the killing) who have been senselessly slaughtered in the past… and for the beautiful ducks who will be killed from tomorrow onwards in Victoria’s duck season.

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Jumping For Joy

The hens at Lefty’s Place have been rescued from caged egg farms, from free range egg farms, from barn laid egg farms, from backyards and from abattoirs before they were scheduled to be slaughtered. Every one of these hens arrives in a state of shock, they are unable to work out what is happening to them or why it’s happening….until they set their feet on earth that is. The ground, the earth and the sky are part of chickens, their soul is entwined with the energy of the earth. On their first day of freedom, most new rescues will have their first dust bath and their first sunbake. After all that time trapped in cages and sheds, their complete relief and recognition of who they actually are when they step on to the earth is magical. To trap these intelligent birds in such misery just so we can eat eggs is cruelty of the highest form. Please enjoy the Lefty’s Place hens jumping for joy and read their accompanying stories.

They are free.

Oda Mae Brown and Sweetness – Jumping For Joy
Oda May Brown (the hen in the air) was given to an animals shelter when her owners were going overseas. She was lucky to find a place to let her live out her days without the pressure of being solely and egg machine.
Sweetness was rescued from a cage egg farm in 2013. We found her huddling alone in her cage. Why she was alone we don’t know, but her cage mates had probably died one by one.
Both these girls are now happy. They are free.

Rosemary – Jumping For Joy
Rosemary was rescued from a cage egg farm in 2015. We chose Rosemary as we walked through that cage egg farm because she had pushed her body as far as she could through the bars to look at us. She was desperate to come with us, and so she did.
These days she is a happy, gentle, people loving hen. She is free.

Rosemary – Jumping For Joy
Rosemary was rescued from a cage egg farm in 2015. We chose Rosemary as we walked through that cage egg farm because she had pushed her body as far as she could through the bars to look at us. She was desperate to come with us, and so she did.
These days she is a happy, gentle, people loving hen. She is free.

Extra Speckley – Jumping For Joy

Rescued from a cage farm in late 2011, Extra Speckley grabbed on to her new life with gusto. From her first day of freedom she was unstoppable.
She is free.

Cruskit – Jumping For Joy
Cruskit was rescued from an abattoir in 2016. She was completely bald, terrified and stuffed in a crate ready to be slaughtered at sunrise. She had spent her whole life in a cage egg farm before she arrived at the abattoir. Her life had been misery. She was seen as less then nothing.
These days Cruskit is one of the cheekiest little ladies I know. She bites me when she gets the chance. She chest bumps hens she doesn’t like. She run, she jumps and she lives her life to the absolute full.
She is free.

*”Jumping For Joy” is a work in progress.

The slideshow below is the entire current series.

You can read about our residents here https://www.tamarakenneallyphotography.com/leftys-place-2/

Maggie

A broiler chicken with a sense of humour, that was my Maggie, she was so funny. She was rescued in early 2012 from a broiler (meat) chicken farm at about 4 weeks old. The farm she came from is pictured below.
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I named her Maggie Matron Sloan after a character in the Australian drama, “A Country Practice” because of her pear shaped body and her great sense of humour. Maggie loved people, she was always with me, never scared. Maggie was the one who would duck and weave through ten ex-battery hens to grab the veggie sausage. Despite her ever growing size, she was so incredibly agile. She would climb up the ladder at night and sleep high on the perches with the ex-battery hens! No other broiler chickens could do that because of their weight, but Maggie was determined to sleep up there every single night. My fondest memories are watching Maggie climb up that ladder each night. The look on her face once she made it to the top always made me smile.

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Maggie passed away in early 2013. Like all broiler chickens, her body was not designed for longevity. It was designed for eating. She died of heart related problems. I miss that funny girl so. She loved life with vigour.

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Jumping for Joy

My new series “Jumping For Joy” is inspired by my five ex-battery hens.

Our five ex-battery hens used to be squashed in small cages with nowhere to move. They had never seen the sun or grass and had never had a dust bath. They lived in these prisons for 18 months of their lives.

Today, as free birds, they love life and get as much out of it as they can. They love to jump. They love to jump even more if there’s lettuce involved.

Stay tuned for more images.

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